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Menace   /mˈɛnəs/  /mˈɛnɪs/   Listen
noun
Menace  n.  The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. "His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces." "The dark menace of the distant war."


verb
Menace  v. t.  (past & past part. menaced; pres. part. menacing)  
1.
To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war. "My master... did menace me with death."
2.
To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted. "By oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal."


Menace  v. i.  To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect. "Who ever knew the heavens menace so?"





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"Menace" Quotes from Famous Books



... this rash individual, was the man with the bald brow, who, a moment earlier, standing with the gypsy's group had chilled the poor girl with his words of menace and of hatred. He was dressed in an ecclesiastical costume. At the moment when he stood forth from the crowd, Gringoire, who had not noticed him up to that time, recognized him: "Hold!" he said, with an exclamation of astonishment. "Eh! 'tis my master in Hermes, Dom Claude Frollo, ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo
... and, choosing an evil part, had become a menace to the community; as Grant had said, he must go. This was unavoidable, and though the duty of getting rid of him was painful, it must be carried out. George was usually unsuspicious and of ...
— Ranching for Sylvia • Harold Bindloss
... to say, right here," he began, with a rasping leisureliness, "that I hope no member of this honoured body will take my remarks as personal or unparliamentary—but"—he raised a big forefinger and shook it with menace at the presiding officer, at the same time suddenly lifting his voice to an unprintable shriek—"I say to you, sir, that the song of the siren has been heard in the land, and the call of Delilah has been ...
— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington
... fortification, and while their leader advanced alone and composedly across the space between the invaders and the walls of Harby, the followers were bale to note how all the windows were barricaded and loop-holed, and how full of menace the ancient ...
— The Lady of Loyalty House - A Novel • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... I never can forget Waved a wild sceptre at me, ruling yet An empire gone where all empires must go, Melting away as simply as the snow; Yet no one heeded the flower of his menace, As little heeded him as that One Face That suddenly I saw go wandering by, And saying as ...
— The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems • Richard Le Gallienne


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